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Dumuzi-abzu was the tutelary goddess of Kinunir, a city located near Lagash. [2] It was also known under the name Kinirša. [3] It is not universally agreed that Kinnir was yet another form of the same name, [4] but Manfred Krebernik nonetheless argues that its city goddess, Nin-Kinnir, "lady of Kinnir," was a name of Dumuzi-abzu. [5]
Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (Sumerian: 𒌉𒍣, romanized: Dumuzid; Akkadian: Duʾūzu, Dûzu; Hebrew: תַּמּוּז, romanized: Tammūz), [a] [b] known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (Sumerian: 𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻, romanized: Dumuzid sipad) [3] and to the Canaanites as Adon (Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍; Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity ...
Dumuzi-abzu is a local goddess who was the tutelary goddess of Kinunir, a settlement in the territory of the state of Lagash. [327] Her name, which probably means "good child of the Abzu", [ 137 ] was sometimes abbreviated to Dumuzi , [ 137 ] but she has no obvious connection to the god Dumuzi . [ 137 ]
In Lagash, a field named after Abu apparently existed, and an inscription refers to it "Lugalanda's own field." [20] In the Ur III period, Abu received offerings in Kuara in the local temple of Ninsun [4] alongside this goddess, her husband Lugalbanda, Dumuzi and Geshtinanna. [6]
Duttur was the mother of the dying god Dumuzid, [4] as well as his well attested sister Geshtinanna. [13] According to Old Babylonian incantations, Ea was the father of Dumuzid, [4] but he plays no role in narrative texts about him, unlike his female relatives like Duttur. [3]
Due to Dumuzi's marriage to Inanna, Geshtinanna was the sister-in-law of this goddess. [8] She is directly referred to as her "beloved sister-in-law" in the composition labeled as Inanna D in modern literature, though she is only listed after the members of her immediate family ( Ningal , Suen , Utu , Dumuzi) and Ninshubur , addressed as the ...
Dumuzi's death is thus glorified, as it is caused by a goddess and allows this goddess to return to the world of the living. Consequently, through funeral rites, death is experienced by humans as that of Dumuzi: it is understood by the Mesopotamians as the end of one form of life and the beginning of another; therefore, it takes on meaning and ...
Belili appears in two distinct roles in Mesopotamian texts, as a sister of Dumuzi and as a primordial deity counted among the ancestors of Anu. [7] Andrew R. George [7] and Wilfred G. Lambert consider the sister of Dumuzi and the ancestor of Anu to be the same goddess. [1]